Landlords Alliance – Emergency Euro Elections Statement

Landlords Alliance – Emergency Euro Elections Statement

21:09 PM, 21st May 2019, About 5 years ago 111

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The Landlords Alliance was set up to represent and fight for private landlords. We never planned or envisaged getting into politics; yet events have forced us to confront reality.

May’s failed administration wants to scrap Section 21s, which will create potential lifetime tenancies and prevent landlords from having control over their own property. Until and unless major changes are made firstly to the Section 8 process and the grossly inadequate court system, we cannot support this step.

It has become clear that the Government is not in fact interested in reforming the private rented sector in any positive way, but is rather chasing cheap headlines by pretending they are helping tenants.

In summary this useless Tory government is anti-business, anti-landlord and couldn’t care less about tenants on benefits, despite what they say. As from now we advise our Alliance members not to accept DSS tenants just as Shelter will not provide them with bonds. It is just too risky.

As of now, we do not know what policies the Brexit Party will have for the economy in general and the PRS in particular, but the signs are good and we are ready to give the Brexit Party a chance. After Thursday’s European elections we intend to approach the Brexit Party to solicit their support for the sector.

We urge landlords, their families and friends to respond in the strongest terms to the latest assault on the sector, with May’s announcement of the scrapping of Section 21. We will not stand by as property rights are annihilated.

I have spoken today to a landlord who has eight tenants who agree with him and who are going to vote for the Brexit Party on Thursday. They understand that this is an attack on landlords and tenants. Let’s get the Brexit Party over the line on Thursday. Then we are on new ground, as victory should give them momentum to win or hold the balance of power in a General Election.

Until now landlords have had no choice and nowhere to go. Perhaps that’s why the Tories thought they could take us for granted. Well, we now have a viable alternative, so they have grossly miscalculated.

If we get out Thursday and work with our tenants, we can give this rotten Tory party a good hiding. Let’s finally show this pathetic government that their campaign against us has hit the buffers.

They have destroyed their core constituency of voters and any prospect of Conservatives getting the tenant vote will dissolve when they are unable to find accommodation. We must explain to every DSS tenant that we turn away: THIS IS THE FAULT OF THE CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT!

We urge all landlords to back Brexit Party candidates against Conservatives everywhere.

Join the Landlords Alliance >> https://landlordsalliance.co.uk/


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KD South East

15:12 PM, 22nd May 2019, About 5 years ago

Reply to the comment left by Luke P at 22/05/2019 - 09:03
I’d rather keep the NHS thanks. Farage wants an insurance based healthcare system. It’s one of the only things he has said.

Chris @ Possession Friend

15:15 PM, 22nd May 2019, About 5 years ago

Even IF, Farage becomes P.M. he may well not get everything he wants.
No single Politician offers Everything a voter wants or is in agreement with, you've got to take a collective position and engage and influence.

Dr Rosalind Beck

15:20 PM, 22nd May 2019, About 5 years ago

Reply to the comment left by Darren Moore at 22/05/2019 - 14:22
Her views are very different now, as are mine. I was brought up Labour and to believe the world owed me a living. We were on benefits and I thought we should be given more. I thought I could choose not to work and just receive money from the state ( i.e. from the taxes of those who did work). I was also an anti-nuclear activist. I have different views now. I think anyone is entitled to change their opinions as they get older. In fact, it's a good thing and also rather weird if their views as a twenty something person remain set in stone.

Monty Bodkin

16:06 PM, 22nd May 2019, About 5 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit_Party#cite_note-35

The party's constitution was published by the Electoral Commission as a result of a freedom of information request in May 2019.[35] It describes the party as seeking to

"promote and encourage those who aspire to improve their personal situation and those who seek to be self-reliant, whilst providing protection for those genuinely in need; favour the ability of individuals to make decisions in respect of themselves; seek to diminish the role of the State; lower the burden of taxation on individuals and businesses."

Isn't that what the Tories used to stand for?

Anne Nixon

16:28 PM, 22nd May 2019, About 5 years ago

Reply to the comment left by Monty Bodkin at 22/05/2019 - 16:06
Sounds good to me!

Luke P

16:38 PM, 22nd May 2019, About 5 years ago

Reply to the comment left by Monty Bodkin at 22/05/2019 - 16:06
Sign me up! Regardless of which party it is…I want me some of that!!

Chris Novice Shark Bait

18:15 PM, 22nd May 2019, About 5 years ago

Easily said. Sounds great. Less easily delivered. The referendum got us into trouble because we could not trust what we were being fed. We did not know that then, but have we learned a lesson? Should we have known that then? Surely we must know that now. Pin the tail on your donkey. Just wish we did not have to wear a blindfold. Down to us all individually with freedom of thought and speech. Not sure the Alliance should be coercing, but interesting thread,

Terence Birch

19:39 PM, 22nd May 2019, About 5 years ago

Reply to the comment left by Mark Alexander at 22/05/2019 - 12:20
Lucky?

Annie Landlord

19:45 PM, 22nd May 2019, About 5 years ago

This article is outrageous. Larry, you are using the alliance as a platform for your own obsessions and political views. Have you canvassed every member of the alliance (by the way, how many are there? You never say) and sought their approval for publicising the alliance's support of a particular political party. You are completely out of order

Monty Bodkin

20:53 PM, 22nd May 2019, About 5 years ago

Reply to the comment left by Chris Novice Shark Bait at 22/05/2019 - 18:15
Easily said.

Who else is saying it Chris?

Seriously, let me know and I'll vote for them.

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